AUS Winter Sports Schedules Released

Jun 03, 2016

(HALIFAX, NS) Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2016-17 regular season sport schedules for women’s hockey, men’s and women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s swimming.

All AUS regular and postseason games will be webcast at AUStv.ca powered by Bell Aliant. All AUS championships, as well as select regular season games, will be broadcast live on Bell Aliant’s FibreOP TV1 on channels 1 and 401.

The 2016-17 women’s hockey season is set to begin Friday, Oct. 14 and wrap up Sunday, Feb. 12.

The top six teams in the standings will move on to post-season play. Three rounds of playoff series will be played with the top two seeds receiving byes into the semi-final round.

The quarterfinals will feature the third-place team taking on the sixth-place finisher, while the fourth-place team will face off against the fifth-place team.

The quarter-final, semi-final and final rounds will once again each be best-of-three affairs using a 'home-away-home' format where the higher seeded team will host the opening game of the series as well as the third and deciding game, if necessary.

The 2017 CIS women's hockey championship will be hosted by Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. March 16 to 19.

Women’s Volleyball

The 2016-17 women’s volleyball season is set to begin Friday, Oct. 28 and wrap up Sunday, Feb. 19.

Starting in 2016-17, the top four ranked women's volleyball teams following regular season play will qualify for the AUS championship.

The championship will take place over two days, where the first day will consist of two semifinals. The top-seeded team will face the fourth seed, while the second seed will face the third seed. The second day will see a third-place match and a championship match contested.

The host of the Subway AUS Women's Volleyball Championship will be determined on a rotational basis, however the host must finish in the top four in that particular season. If the host does not finish in the top four, the next team in the rotation (who has finished within the top four) will become that season’s championship host. The team which did not qualify will become the host for the following year.